this work . as a result , he was promoted to the ministry of personnel and gained admit ##tance to the han ##lin academy , but before he could take up this appointment , beijing had fallen to the manchu rebellion . since con ##tem ##por ##aneous biographies ( wen ' s work was not published until 1830 ) make no mention of these events , it has been suggested that they were fabricated after hu ' s death . hu retired from public life and went into sec ##lusion in 1646 , after the end of the ming dynasty . xiao yun ##con ##g and lu liu ##lian ##g recorded visiting him during his later years , in 1667 and 167 ##3 respectively . he died in
this work. as a result, he was promoted to the ministry of personnel and gained admittance to the hanlin academy, but before he could take up this appointment, beijing had fallen to the manchu rebellion. since contemporaneous biographies ( wen's work was not published until 1830 ) make no mention of these events, it has been suggested that they were fabricated after hu's death. hu retired from public life and went into seclusion in 1646, after the end of the ming dynasty. xiao yuncong and lu liuliang recorded visiting him during his later years, in 1667 and 1673 respectively. he died in